Lori Becherer is an artist, photographer and poet and from southern Illinois. She has received numerous awards for her poetry including first place in the 2011 Wednesday Club of St. Louis 85th annual poetry contest. Her poetry has been published in Penumbra, lipstik, and Head to Hand. She is a coauthor of Orchids in the Cornfield: Collected Writings of the Heartland Women’s Writers Guild. "Arterial Flow" was inspired by a visit to "Body Worlds 3" in St. Louis, MO in 2008.